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Baxter Springs, Kansas, the Glossary

Baxter Springs is a city in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States, and located along Spring River.^[1]

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1868 establishments in Kansas

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Alaskan Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.

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Alfalfa County, Oklahoma

Alfalfa County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual demographics survey program conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Area code 620

Area code 620 covers telephone exchanges in most of southern Kansas.

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Black Dog (Osage chief)

Black Dog (Osage, Manka-Chonka, ca. 1780–1848) was a chief of the Hunkah band of the Osage Indians that lived in an area around present Baxter Springs, Kansas.

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Byron Stewart

Byron Stewart (born May 1, 1956 in Baxter Springs, Kansas) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Warren Coolidge in the television series The White Shadow and the television medical drama St. Elsewhere.

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Cable ferry

A cable ferry (including the types chain ferry, swing ferry, floating bridge, or punt) is a ferry that is guided (and in many cases propelled) across a river or large body of water by cables connected to both shores.

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Camp Ben Butler

In early May 1863 a temporary camp, Camp Hooker, was established at the site of what later became Baxter Springs, Kansas.

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Camp Hunter

Camp Hunter was established in June 1862 or a bit earlier at what is now Baxter Springs, Kansas.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean islands.

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Charles Fox Parham

Charles Fox Parham (June 4, 1873 – January 29, 1929) was an American preacher and evangelist.

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Cherokee

The Cherokee (translit, or translit) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.

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Cherokee County, Kansas

Cherokee County is a U.S. county located in Southeast Kansas.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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Elevation

The elevation of a geographic ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).

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Environmental degradation

Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.

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European Americans

European Americans are Americans of European ancestry.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Five Civilized Tribes

The term Five Civilized Tribes was applied by the United States government in the early federal period of the history of the United States to the five major Native American nations in the Southeast: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminoles.

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Fort Baxter (Kansas)

Fort Baxter, also known as Fort Blair, was a small US Army post located in the southeast corner of Kansas near present-day Baxter Springs.

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Fort Scott National Historic Site

Fort Scott National Historic Site is a historical area under the control of the United States National Park Service in Bourbon County, Kansas, United States.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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Glad Robinson Youse

Gladys "Glad" Robinson Youse (1898 – 1985), was an American composer.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.

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Hale Irwin

Hale S. Irwin (born June 3, 1945) is an American professional golfer.

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Household

A household consists of one or more persons who live in the same dwelling.

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Indian removal

The Indian removal was the United States government's policy of ethnic cleansing through the forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi Riverspecifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma), which many scholars have labeled a genocide.

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Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones is an American media franchise consisting of five films and a prequel television series, along with games, comics, and tie-in novels, that depicts the adventures of Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones Jr. (portrayed in all films by Harrison Ford), a fictional professor of archaeology.

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Indigenous peoples

There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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Joe Don Rooney

Joe Don Rooney (born September 13, 1975) is an American guitarist.

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Joplin, Missouri

Joplin is a city in Jasper and Newton counties in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Kansas

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Kansas City metropolitan area

The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri.

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Kansas Department of Transportation

The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) is a state government organization in charge of maintaining public roadways of the U.S. state of Kansas.

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Kansas Senate

The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Lee Scott (businessman)

Harold Lee Scott Jr. is an American businessman who was the third chief executive officer of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., from January 2000 to January 2009.

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List of counties in Kansas

This is a list of counties in the U.S. state of Kansas.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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List of townships in Kansas

The U.S. state of Kansas is divided into 1,404 townships in 105 counties.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Max McCoy

Max Allan McCoy (born October 30, 1958) is an American journalist and novelist.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Mayor–council government

A mayor–council government is a system of local government in which a mayor who is directly elected by the voters acts as chief executive, while a separately elected city council constitutes the legislative body.

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The median income is the income amount that divides a population into two groups, half having an income above that amount, and half having an income below that amount.

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Mineral spring

Mineral springs are naturally occurring springs that produce hard water, water that contains dissolved minerals.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad

The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad was a Class I railroad company in the United States, with its last headquarters in Dallas, Texas.

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Multiracial Americans

Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.

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Multiracial people

The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.

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Municipal corporation

Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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Native Hawaiians

Native Hawaiians (also known as Indigenous Hawaiians, Kānaka Maoli, Aboriginal Hawaiians, or simply Hawaiians; kānaka, kānaka ʻōiwi, Kānaka Maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.

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North American Numbering Plan

The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.

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Northern United States

The Northern United States, commonly referred to as the American North, the Northern States, or simply the North, is a geographical and historical region of the United States.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River is a river in the United States.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Osage Nation

The Osage Nation (𐓁𐒻 𐓂𐒼𐒰𐓇𐒼𐒰͘|Ni Okašką|People of the Middle Waters) is a Midwestern American tribe of the Great Plains.

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Ozarks

The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas.

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Pentecostalism

Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Plat

In the United States, a plat (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Professional Golfers' Association of America

The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA of America) is an American organization of golf professionals that was founded in 1916.

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Quantrill's Raiders

Quantrill's Raiders were the best-known of the pro-Confederate partisan guerrillas (also known as "bushwhackers") who fought in the American Civil War.

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Quapaw, Oklahoma

Quapaw, officially the Town of Quapaw, is a town in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States, which serves as the capital of the Quapaw Nation.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Rail transport

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.

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Rascal Flatts

Rascal Flatts were an American country music band founded in 1999 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Resort hotel

A resort hotel is a hotel which often contains full-sized luxury facilities with full-service accommodations and amenities.

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Richard Hilderbrand

Richard J. Hilderbrand (born January 26, 1969) is an American politician and businessman who served as a member of the Kansas Senate from the 13th district.

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Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge

The Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge is part of the United States system of national wildlife refuges.

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Spring River (Missouri)

The Spring River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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St. Elsewhere

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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The White Shadow (TV series)

The White Shadow is an American drama television series starring Ken Howard that ran on the CBS network from November 27, 1978, to March 16, 1981, about a white former professional basketball player who takes a job coaching basketball at an impoverished urban high school with a racially mixed basketball team.

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Tim Shallenburger

Tim Shallenburger (born March 14, 1954) is Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 13th District.

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U.S. Route 166

U.S. Route 166 (US 166) is a east–west United States highway.

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U.S. Route 400

U.S. Route 400 (US 400) is a mostly east–west U.S. Highway, commissioned in 1994.

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U.S. Route 66

U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66) was one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System.

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U.S. Route 69

U.S. Route 69 (US 69) is a major north–south United States highway in the central United States.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Colored Troops

United States Colored Troops (USCT) were Union Army regiments during the American Civil War that primarily comprised African Americans, with soldiers from other ethnic groups also serving in USCT units.

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Walmart

Walmart Inc. (formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baxter_Springs,_Kansas

Also known as Baxter Springs, Baxter Springs, KS, History of Baxter Springs, Kansas, UN/LOCODE:USBSG.

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1868 establishments in Kansas

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